[markomalley]

Yes. It was the "thing to do" during the 70s.

Fortunately, there have been guidelines to rectify the situation (it used to be tradition -- small 't' -- and common sense before).

Also fortunately, they couldn't get their claws into all of the older, glorious, church buildings.

[investigateworld]

A classic example in the UK is the Catholic Cathedral in Liverpool.

The locals call it "Paddy's Wigwam".*

The C of E Cathedral is a beautiful Gothic masterpiece.

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*Ya, a Prottie is reported to have designed it ;^(

[Shethink13]

What really breaks my heart is how they’ve painted over some of the beautiful artwork on the walls of churches in favor of some plain brown wrapper type color.

[joe fonebone]

we have a church in the area i call “St. Star Trek”....the altar area looks like the bridge of the old enterprise...

[Straight Vermonter]

We had this cathedral until it burned in the early 70s.

The diocese rebuilt with this.

The worst part is that they built on the cheap but it is far too small to serve as a proper cathedral. So now they have named another (much larger) church that is just a few blocks away to be the co-cathedral. Sigh.